Jacob Ravell

Jacob Ravell (1529-) was a French Huguenot noble and Protestant leader during the French Wars of Religion.

Biography
Jacob Ravell was born in 1529 to a French Catholic family of nobles, and he converted to Calvinism during the Reformation. He became close friends with Lord Aloysius Castleroy, a fellow Protestant noble, and he came to be a leader of the Huguenot cause as the French Wars of Religion neared. In 1559, he recruited Louis I of Bourbon, Prince de Conde - a nominal Catholic who was highly critical of the Catholic Church - into the Protestant cause. He was not involved in the Protestant assassination attempt on King Francis II of France and Mary, Queen of Scots, and he instead helped Conde hunt down the noble responsible, finding that he had hanged himself.